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Mosby Breaks Silence, Defending her Pursuit of Justice for Freddie Gray
For Immediate Release 7/27/16
Following a brief hearing in court Wednesday morning, Baltimore City States Attorney
Marilyn Mosby held a press conference at Gilmor Homesthe site of the arrest that led
to Freddie Grays untimely death while in police custody to announce publicly that
the Office of the States Attorney will not prosecute Officer Garrett Miller and Sgt. Alicia
White and has declined to retry Officer William Porter.
Mosby, commenting for the first time since Judge Barry Williams issued a gag order
barring both prosecutors and the defense from speaking publicly on any of the six
officers cases, shared the States perspective on the importance of the trial and its
effects on police brutality in Baltimore City.
However fitting it is for outside observers to use the untimely death of Freddie Carlos
Gray Jr. as a barometer for the nations progress on police brutalitymy professional
role in this matter is plain, it is my job to seek justice on behalf of a 25 year-old victim.
Mosby said as she opened her remarks.
During her speech she reiterated that her administrations primary charge was to seek
justice over convictions and hold individuals accountable regardless of their age, race,
color, sex or occupation.
Mosby touched on her upbringing in a family full of police officers and pushed back
hard on attacks that she is anti-police.
For those that believe I am anti-police, thats simply not the case. I am anti-police
brutality. Mosby declared.
Mosby made clear in her remarks that that it would not be in the best interest of judicial
economy to continue to try the remaining cases. She thanked her deputies Michael
Schatzow and Janice Bledsoeand the rest of the prosecution team for their hard work
and defended the legal theories the State put forward in each of the cases.
She said that the 135 trial motions her team overcame, the appellate court victory that
forced the officers to testify against one another, and the combined 35 motions for
acquittal and summary judgment were proof that the State had legitimate reasons to
pursue criminal charges against all six police officers involved in Grays death.
Mosby then highlighted a half-dozen tangible reforms that had been made within
Baltimore Police Department since Grays death including: the deployment of body
cameras, the requirement to seat belt arrestees, the mounting of cameras on patrol

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wagons, a new policy acknowledgement system that can prove officers receive new
directives and two new policies regarding the use of force and directive to seek
medical relief for those who need it or request it.
As long as I am the Chief Prosecutor for this great city, that is what my office will fight
for a fair and equitable justice system for all so that whatever happened to Freddie
Gray never happens to another person in this community again. Mosby said in closing.